The John Carter Brown Library's collection of books printed in Spanish America is among the finest in the world. In some areas, the collections are unmatched and include works found nowhere else. The Library has the largest collection in the world of books printed in Spanish America as a whole prior to ca. 1820, over 7,000 titles, encompassing the output of presses in Mexico, Peru, Central America, Argentina, Chile, and elsewhere. The remaining Spanish American presses represented in the JCB's...
The interest of German writers and readers in the Western Hemisphere dates back to the earliest narratives of the transatlantic Encounter. One of the first Latin editions of the Columbus letter was printed at Basel in 1493, and a German translation appeared in print in 1497. By the late sixteenth century, German publishers were issuing American travel narratives in impressive series. The biological and mineral resources of the Americas had a substantial impact on German science, and the...
The John Carter Brown Library Indigenous Language collection contains texts in one or more Amerindian languages for the period before the nineteenth century. This collection includes all identified books with native American languages–whether they contain a one-page vocabulary list or are entirely in or on an native American language. Besides the many grammatical studies, dictionaries, and thematic vocabulary lists, genres such as speeches, dramatic dialogues, scriptural excerpts, catechisms,...
The French literature collection of the John Carter Brown Library is of particular interest to those interested in political, social, and intellectual history and in the literature of travel. In addition to accounts by writers such as Cartier, Champlain, Thevet, Hennepin, and Tonti, the collection is strong in translations of French works in other languages. Semi-legendary and imaginary voyages hold particular interest. The library also holds a substantial collection of laws, decrees, and...
The Portuguese and Brazilian books held at the John Carter Brown Library comprise one of the finest North American collections relating to Brazil before the country declared its independence from Portugal in 1822. The collection includes 650 titles before 1800 and another 500 titles from 1800 to 1822—including 165 books printed in Brazil itself after the *Impressão Regia* opened a branch in Rio de Janeiro in 1808 and presses began operating in Bahia. This collection has been compiled from a...
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The John Carter Brown Library has one of the five largest collections of early Peruviana in the world. It is not just the number of Peruvian imprints of the colonial, independence, and early national periods held by the John Carter Brown Library that is important, however, but the diversity of those materials and in a great many instances, their singularity - being only known copies. The subjects range from ecclesiastical matters, to government papers, to indigenous language studies, and...
Topic: Peru
The John Carter Brown Library holds one of the world's great collections relating to Haiti. Our rare books, maps and newspapers tell the story of the founding of the French colony of Saint Domingue (once the most lucrative colony in the Americas), its demise through the Haitian Revolution (the world's only successful slave revolution) and the founding of Haiti in its place. By providing access to this collection, the JCB hopes to stimulate interest in Haiti's remarkable history. Visit the Haiti...
The first press in Argentina appeared in Córdoba in 1764, brought by the Jesuits to serve the University there. It lasted only until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. It would not be until 1780 that printing in the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata would begin again, this time in Buenos Aires. The JCB holds no fewer than 20 imprints from this press printed prior to 1791. During the wars of independence, the Buenos Aires press was the principal voice of the Republican forces, chiefly through...
The JCB’s collection of Mexican incunabula is world renowned. In a recent census of the first books to come off the Mexican presses, between 1539 and 1600, Rosa María Fernánez de Zamora of the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that the John Carter Brown Library holds more than any other library in the world. About half of these may also be found in the JCB’s collection on indigenous languages. The vast majority of these items were purchased from Mexican collector Nicolás...
Guatemala was the fourth city in Spanish America to obtain a press, in 1660, brought there from Mexico by Bishop Payo Enriquez de Rivera. The JCB’s collection includes a number of works found nowhere else in the world, including printer and apothecary Cristobal de Hincapié Meléndez’s Virtudes de la habilla del Darien, que llaman de Guathemala from 1739. Four of the books in this collection are included in the Indigenous Languages collection. http://archive.org/details/jcbspanishamerica
While some ephemeral printing appeared in Chile at an earlier date, the first printing press arrived there fairly late, relative to other parts of Latin America. Towards the end of 1811, Mateo Hoevel imported a press from New York, and that press is seen as the first in Chile, producing Chile's first periodical, the Aurora de Chile. The JCB holds a complete run of this pioneering periodical, along with many other unique items. http://archive.org/details/jcbspanishamerica
The Gazeta de Buenos Ayres ran from 7 June 1810 to 12 September 1821 and is a fundamental primary source for Latin America's Independence period. The John Carter Brown Library is fortunate to hold a virtually complete run of the Gazeta , including the Supplements and Extraordinary issues (we hold 805 of 828 issues). As a part of the Bicentennial celebrations of the Wars of Independence in Latin America, the JCB will be digitizing and making freely available on the Internet Archive all of our...
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America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the Nevv VVorld; : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither. The conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts. Also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers. Their habits, customs, manners, and religions. Their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. With an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown South-Land and the Arctick region.
1671
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Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676; Middleton, John. fmo RPJCB; Underwood, John, senior. fmo RPJCB; Brown University. fmo RPJCB
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Author assignment according to Sabin, Arents and Paltsits
Topics: Indian linguistics, Indian linguistics
A collection of materials associated with John Carter Brown Library Exhibitions.
The Philippines are included within this collection since during the colonial period the islands were administered from Mexico. Manila's first press began in 1593, and was thus the third city in the Spanish overs eas empire to have a press. As with the other two, Mexico and Peru, much of the early output consisted of doctrinal works, often in indigenous languages. The earliest Manila imprint held by the JCB is Arte y reglas de la lengua Tagala printed in 1610....
The John Carter Brown Library holds more books printed in Colombia prior to 1810 than any library in the world, some held nowhere else, and otherwise unknown to bibliographers. Among them is the only known complete copy of Saverien's Historia de las ciencias naturales, printed in Bogota in 1791, whose existence illustrates the broad spread of Enlightenment ideas throughout the Spanish Empire. http://archive.org/details/jcbspanishamerica
The John Carter Brown Library and the Redwood Library and Athenaeum are Rhode Island institutions with distinct, but complementary, collections. To lay the foundation for a Rhode Island History Digital Collection the two libraries are collaborating on a project to scan the unique documents representing the earliest chapters of the region. The Redwood Library holds some unique manuscript records of early Rhode Island and the John Carter Brown Library holds seminal works by Roger Williams, Rhode...
5 v. :|bmaps, plans ;|c23 cm. (8vo) Date of publication of 1802 supplied by Bissainthe and Martin & Walter
Topic: Imprint 1802
The call to convent life drew women throughout the early modern Spanish world, from Madrid to Mexico City to Manila. For all the strictures that convents placed upon their inhabitants, they also gave women opportunities to pursue vocations of the spirit and of the mind. Within convent walls, Teresa of Ávila inaugurated her groundbreaking religious reform, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz composed some of the most ingenious poems in the Spanish language, and innumerable women wrote powerful accounts...
Exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, February-May, 2018 The physical structures that housed those who lived in slavery in the early Americas were a powerful symbol of the dehumanization of the millions of Africans and people of African descent whose labor built New World plantation societies and newly globalizing economies. They were also the concrete embodiment of the social and economic system that left them at the mercy of profit-driven slave-holders. Using...
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America: being an accurate description of the Nevv VVorld; : containing the original of the inhabitants; the remarkable voyages thither: the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, their ancient and later vvars. With their several plantations, many, and rich islands; their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers: their habits, customs, manners, and religions; their peculiar plants, beasts, birds, and serpents.
1670
1670
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Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
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Topics: Indian linguistics, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1671
Cuba was the first Caribbean island to have a press, begun in 1722 by Flemish merchant Carlos Habré of Ghent. Habré and his successor, Francisco José de Paula, printed only intermittently, and it was not until 1757 that the press began to function more regularly. Of the 29 items in this collection (as of 2012), fully half are only known copies found nowhere else in the world. http://archive.org/details/jcbspanishamerica
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America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the Nevv VVorld; : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither. The conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts. Also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers. Their habits, customs, manners, and religions. Their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. With an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown South-Land and the Arctick region.
1671
1671
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Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676; Middleton, John. fmo RPJCB; Underwood, John, senior. fmo RPJCB; Brown University. fmo RPJCB
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Topics: Indian linguistics, Indian linguistics
Previous ed.: Mexico, Espinosa, 1555
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Topics: CSAIP, Nahuatl language, Spanish language, Indians of Mexico, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1571
Signatures: a- A-Y Z chi¹ (8 blank)
Topics: CSAIP, Tarascan language, Spanish language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1559
The second edition of Eliot's Indian Bible, revised by Eliot and John Cotton
Topics: Massachuset language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1685
2 v. ;26 cm. (4to) "Vende-se na Loja do Borel Borel, e Companhia, quasi defronte da Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Martyres, N.° 14." at bottom of title page
Topics: CPJCB, Portuguese language, Imprint 1813
Guarani-Spanish vocabulary. Ruiz de Montoya's Spanish-Guarani vocabulary appeared in the following year with his Guarani grammar, with title: Arte, y vocabulary de la lengua guarani
Topics: Guarani language, Guarani language, Indian linguistics
First printed in serialized form as part of "A new collection of voyages and travels", compiled by John Stevens from 1708-1710, and printed in cumulation in London, 1711
Topics: Natural history, Natural history, Indians of North America, Indians of North America, Tuscarora...
Date of publication follows place in imprint
Topics: CSAIP, Nahuatl language, Indians of Mexico, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1887
Between 1544 and 1563, Ecuador was a part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, but in 1720 it became part of the newly created Viceroyalty of New Granada. The JCB holds 14 items printed in Quito and elsewhere between 1780 and 1839, most of which are not held by any other institution, or are otherwise unknown to bibliographers. http://archive.org/details/jcbspanishamerica
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Pigafetta, Filippo, 1533-1604; Reina, Casiodoro de, approximately 1520-1594; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
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Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription
Topics: Lopes, Duarte, Portuguese, Imprint 1597
Pagination of v. 1: [6], xx, 277, xxxi, 279-350, [8] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [6], 397, [1], xlvi, [10] p.; v. 3: [4], 339, [5] p
Topics: CSAIP, Indians of Mexico, Aztecs, Natural history, Nahua calendar, Indian linguistics, Imprint...
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Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1501-1577; Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos; Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574; Huber z Rizenpachu, Adam, 1546-1613; Adam z Veleslavína, Daniel, 1546-1599; Holzinger, J. B., former owner. RIBRL; České museum, former owner. RIBRL
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Name of printer and date of publication from colophon
Topics: Herbals, Herbs, Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Materia medica, Vegetable, Botany, Imprint 1596
Printers precede place of publication on t.p
Topics: Catholic Church, CSAIP, Spanish language, Zapotec language, Indians of Mexico, Indian linguistics,...
Folded map has title: South part of New England, as it is planted this yeare, 1639
Topics: Indians of North America, Massachuset Indians, Massachuset language, Indian linguistics, Imprint...
Imprint from colophon on verso of map 58, after the privilege by king Philip of Spain dated November 22, 1574 (text in Dutch)
Topics: Geography, Early maps, Cities and towns, Renaissance
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Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680; Schor, Johann Paul, 1615-1674. egr RPJCB; Matham, Theodor, approximately 1606-1676. egr RPJCB; Passe, Crispyn van de, approximately 1591-approximately 1670. egr RPJCB; Siourtsma, Anthonie Heeres, b. approximately 1629. egr RPJCB
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Vol.I: [20], 366, [6]; v. II: [10], 507, [9] p
Topics: Science, Geology, Natural history, Imprint 1678
As with most other regions of Latin America, Venezuela’s first press arrived with the wars of independence. Following the constitution of 1811 and surrounding documents, many were issued by Royalists. Among these is one by Pablo de Murillo, printed aboard the Frigate Diana announcing the terms of Venezuelan General Simón Bolívar’s surrender. As with other parts of this collection, virtually all of these items are known in single copies at the JCB....
2 v. :|b2 ill., maps (engravings) ;|c26 cm. (4to) (from t.p.) Tome premier. Comprenant, outre les objets généraux, la description des vingt & une paroisses de la partie du nord & de l'isle la Tortue -- Tome second. Comprenant la description des dix-sept paroisses de la partie de l'ouest & de l'isle la Gonave & des quartorze paroisses de la partie du sud & de l'isle à Vache
Topics: Imprint 1797, Imprint 1798
The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is one of the first lending libraries in America, housed in the oldest lending library building in the country. Founded in 1747 by forty-six proprietors upon the principle of "having nothing in view but the good of mankind," its mission continues over 265 years later. The Library's core collections include the original collection of 1522 volumes gathered by the first proprietors and printed materials related to the history of Newport and Aquidneck...
Colophon: Imprimiase en la muy insigne villa de Valladolid (Pincia otro tie[m]po llamada) en la officina de Fra[n]cisco Ferna[n]dez de Cordoua, impressor de la Magestad Real. Acabose a diez dias del mes de Henero, Año de mil y quinie[n]tos y sesenta
Topics: Quechua language, Indian linguistics
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1876
1876
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Ruiz de Montoya, Antonio, 1585-1652; Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de, Visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878; Ruiz de Montoya, Antonio, 1585-1652. Tesoro
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Part 1 half-title: Vocabulario y tesoro ... parte primera vocabulario español-guarani (ó tupi); pt. 2 has half-title: Vocabulario y tesoro ... parte segunda tesoro guarani (ó tupi)-español
Topics: Guarani language, Spanish language, Guarani language, Indian linguistics
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1731
1731
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Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, 1672-1733; Pfeffel, Johann Andreas, 1674-1748; Newton Theological Institution, former owner. RIBRL
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(From title pages) Tomus I. Coplectens tabulas CCXXV -- Tomus II. A tab. CCXXVI. ad CCCCXVI [sic., should read CCCCXV] -- Tomus III. A tab. CCCCXVI. ad DXCIV [sic., should read DXCIII] -- Tomus IV. A tab. DXCIV. ad DCCL
Topics: Nature in the Bible, Natural history, Natural history, Imprint 1731, Imprint 1735
A press functioned briefly in Montevideo during the British occupation of 1807, issuing a bi-lingual newspaper titled Estrella del Sur. Yet, only with the eruption of the wars of independence did a press reappear in that city, printing mainly viceregal proclamations. The Infanta Carlota Joaquina, wife of Portugal's prince regent João VI, sent the press from Rio de Janeiro. The royalist publications coming from Montevideo's press sought to counter the Republican press of Buenos Aires....
The Guarani grammar (p. 1-100) has caption title: Arte de la lengua guarani ; the Spanish-Guarani vocabulary (p. 101-376, 1-234) has caption title: Vocabulario de la lengua guarani. Parte primera. Ruiz de Montoya's Guarani-Spanish vocabulary was published in the previous year, with title: Tesoro de la lengua guarani
Topics: Spanish language, Guarani language, Guarani language, Indian linguistics
[From tables of contents] pars 1: De situ paradisi terrestris -- De mari Rubro -- De monte Garizim -- De Ophir -- De diis Cabiris -- De veteri lingua Indica -- pars 2: De Samaritanis -- De reliquiis veteris linguae Persicae -- De Persicis vocabulis Talmudis -- pars 3: De jure militari Mohammedanorum contra Christianos bellum gerentium -- De linguis insularum quarundam orientalium -- De linguis Americanis -- De gemmis Arabicis
Topics: Bible, Philology, Oriental philology, Middle Eastern philology, Oriental antiquities, Tupi...
[4], 143, [1] leaves ;|c21 cm. (8vo) In Spanish and Quechua
Topics: CSAIP, Quechua language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1607
Author's name given at head of fol. [3] recto (=A3 recto) as: Apianus
Topics: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1503-1564, Astronomy,...
Source: folio
In Spanish and Nahuatl
Topics: Nahuatl language, Spanish language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1555
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Mariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium : In quâ, præter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantæ, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & quibus fuerunt inventæ, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneæ, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula;
1719
1719
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Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
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[10], 67, 62-66 p., 72 leaves of plates : 53 cm. (fol.)
Topics: Insects -- Pictorial works, Zoology -- Suriname, Botany -- Suriname, Booksellers' catalogs --...
Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Tarascan, Catholic Church, Tarascan language, Tarasco Indians,...
Translation of: Cosmographia. Beschreibung aller Lender. 1544. First published in Latin: 1550
Topics: Geography, Imprint 1554
[28], 473, [3], 399, [1] p. ;|c20 cm. (4to) Signatures: [par.] A-2H 3A-4B ([par.]1 and 4B8 versos and 2H8 blank)
Topics: CSAIP, Aymara language, Spanish language, Imprint 1612
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A key into the language of America: or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America, called New-England. : Together, with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death. On all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular by the authour, of chiefe and speciall use (upon all occasions,) to all the English inhabiting those parts; yet pleasant and profitable to the view of all men:
1643
1643
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Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683
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[From chapter headings] Of salutation -- Of eating and entertainment -- Concerning sleepe and lodging -- Of their names -- Of their relations of consanguinitie and affinitie, or, blood and marriage -- Of the family and businesse of the house -- Of their persons and parts of body -- Of discourse and newes -- Of the time of the day -- Of the season of the yeere -- Of travell -- Concerning the heavens and heavenly lights -- Of the weather -- Of the winds -- Of fowle -- Of the earth, and the fruits...
Topics: Indians of North America, Indians of North America, Indians of North America, Indians of North...
In double columns
Topics: CSAIP, Quechua language, Spanish language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1608
A translation, by John Eliot, for the Corporation for Propagation of the Gospel in New England into the Massachuset language, of the Old and New Testaments and the metrical Psalms
Topics: Massachuset language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1663
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Die unbekante Neue Welt, oder Beschreibung des Welt-Teils Amerika, und des Sud-Landes : Darinnen vom Vhrsprunge der Ameriker und Sudländer, und von den gedenckwürdigen Reysen der Europer darnachzu. Wie auch von derselben festen Ländern, Inseln, Städten, Festungen, Dörfern, vornähmsten Gebeuen, Bergen, Brunnen, Flüssen und Ahrten der Tiere, Beume, Stauden, und anderer fremden Gewächse; als auch von den Gottes- und Götzen-Diensten, Sitten, Sprachen, Kleider-Trachten, wunderlichen Begäbnissen, und so wohl alten als neuen Kriegen, ausführlich gehandelt wird; durch und durch mit vielen nach dem Leben in Ameriken selbst entworfenen Abbildungen gezieret.
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Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683; Dapper, Olfert, 1639-1689
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Authorship contested; original edition in Dutch (1671) ascribed to Arnoldus Montanus, but in this translation into German authorship of both editions is assigned to Olfert Dapper (O.D. on title page; privilege, p. [5], 1st count,:" ... (so von Doctr. Dapper in Niederländischer Sprache beschrieben: Nunmehr aber in die Hochteutsche übergesetzt worden) ..."). For controversy, see Library chronicle of the University of Texas and Moraes
Topics: Indian linguistics, indian linguistics, Imprint 1673, genealogy
(from title page) Grecaru[m] litteraru[m] institutiones H[a]ebraicaru[m] litteraru[m] rudimenta musicae figuratae institutiones. Architectur[a]e et perspectiu[a]e rudimenta. Quadra[n]tum varie compositio[n]es. Astrolabij messehalath compositio astrolabij noui geographici. compositio formatio Torqueti. Formatio polimetri. Vsus et vtilitates eoru[n]de[m] omniu[m] figura quadrentis poligonalis
Topic: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Very few imprints have survived or were printed in Puerto Rico in the first quarter of the 19th century. José Toribio Median registered only eight imprints from 1809 to 1817 in his La imprenta en algunas ciudades de la América Española, 1754-1823. The JCB hold sixteen Puerto Rican imprints dating from 1808 to 1828, most of these held by no other institution or otherwise unknown to bibliographers. Among these is the only known copy of El Tapaboca, a satirical piece written against Simón...
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-; Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550; Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521; Carvajal, Francisco de, 1465?-1549; Jofre de Loaisa, Garcia, -1526; Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596; Sarmiento, Pero; Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592; Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 1559-1627; Ordóñez de Ceballos, Pedro, approximately 1545-approximately 1630; Bertius, Petrus, 1565-1629; Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. Historia natural y moral de las Indias. Latin. Selections
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Constitutes the twelfth part, sole issue of the sole Latin edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634
Topics: Voyages around the world, Imprint 1624
Translation of: Cosmographia. Beschreibung aller Lender / Sebastian Münster. 1544
Topics: Geography, Imprint 1554
4 parts ([4], 107, [1]; [4], 75, [1]; [4], 138; [4], 114 leaves) ;29 cm. (fol.) Title pages for parts 2-4 read: Segunda [-Quarta e ultima] parte da Chronica do feliçissimo rei Dom Emanuel, composta per Damiam de Goes
Topics: Manuel I, King of Portugal, 1469-1521, Imprint 1566, Imprint 1567, genealogy
"Appendix comprising documents referred to in different parts of the work: together with auxiliary remarks", p. [365]-467, in French and English, have divisional title page
Topics: Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806, Toussaint Louverture, 1743?-1803, Slave insurrections,...
Includes: "Paranesis o exortacion a virtud de Isocrates, ..." (p. 562-571); translated, by Pedro Mexía, from the Latin of: Parenesis Isocratis ad Demonicum, e Græco in Latinum traducta. In: Rodolphi Agricole Phrysii ... Nonnulla opuscula. Antwerp, 1511; originally translated from a Greek manuscript into Latin, by Rodolphus Agricola
Topic: Aztecs -- Kings and rulers -- Death and burial
John Carter Brown Library copy lacks the atlas
Topic: Voyages and travels
Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcriptions
Topics: Columbus, Christopher, Voyages and travels, Imprint 1617
Roman numeral date on title page made with backwards C's
Topics: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618, Indians of North America, Indians of North America, Indians of...
Numerous errors in foliation
Topic: Greek language -- Alphabet
5 v. :ill. ;21 cm. (4to) Pagination of v. 1: xi, [1], 421, [7] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [4]. 436, [8] p., [5] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 399, [7] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 4: vii, [1], 423, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 418 p., [3] folded leaves of plates
Topics: Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs,...
Number [2] in "Varones ilustres de la Compañia de Jesús," a collection in 9 vols. started by J.E. Nieremberg and continued by A. de Andrade and J. Cassini. Title from the 19th century edition of the collection, published in rearranged order
Topics: Jesuits, Jesuits, Imprint 1644
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unknown; Friedrich Achilles, Duke of Würtemberg, 1591-1631; Lansius, Thomas, 1577-1657; Shapiro, I. A. fmo RIBRL; Universität Tübingen
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(From preface on p. [15-17], 1st count) Fridericus Achilles, dux Würtembergiae, retulit de nationum & provinciarum Europae inter ipsas principatu atque praerogativa-- Franciscus Carolus, dux Saxoniae, habuit orationem pro Germania -- Ioachimus Ernestus, dux Slesvici-Holsatiae, orationem habuit pro Gallia -- Magnus, dux Würtembergiae, dixit pro Hispania -- Rudolfus Maximilianus, dux Saxoniae, dixit contra Galliam -- Georgius Fridericus, Limpurgi baro, dixit contra Hispaniam -- Georgius,...
Topics: Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin, World history, Imprint 1613
John Carter Brown Library - German Collection
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Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosæ luis, quæ pestis dicitur. : Quo origo, causæ, signa, prognostica pestis, nec non insolentes malignantis naturæ effectus, qui statis temporibus, cælestium influxuum virtute & efficacia, tum in elementis, tum in epidemijs hominum animantiumque morbis elucescunt, vnà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis noua doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur. Ad. .
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Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
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Text is first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious diseases"--Garrison-Morton
Topics: Plague, Medicine
[14], 178, 185-188, 528, [12] p. ;34cm. (fol.) No more published
Topics: Nobrega, Manuel da, 1519-1570, Jesuits, Imprint 1663, genealogy
Author, Hartmann Schedel, from original ms
Topics: Chronology, Historical, Imprint 1496
